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Dr. Melissa Barlow
Professor

Director, Institute for Community Justice

Email: mbarlow@uncfsu.edu
Phone: (910) 672-1972
Office:  Lauretta Taylor Building, Room 316

Educational Background

Ph.D., Criminology,
Florida State University

Areas of Expertise

  • History and politics of crime control policy
  • Race, class and criminal justice
  • Crime and justice in the media
  • Criminological theory

 

Teaching Areas

  • History of Crime Control Policy
  • Criminological Theory
  • Prisons and Society
  • Communities, Justice and Social Change

 

Dr. Melissa Barlow's Assignments

Kraska, 2006
Barlow, Barlow, and and Chiricos, 1993
Barlow, Barlow, and Chiricos, 1995
Baldwin, 1961
Rusche, 1978
Rothman, 2006
Irwin and Austin, 2006
Vera Institute
Barlow, 1998

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Melissa Barlow Criminal Justice

 

Dr. Melissa H. Barlow is Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute for Community Justice at Fayetteville State University.  Dr. Barlow received her Ph.D. in Criminology in 1991 from Florida State University and has been teaching criminology and criminal justice for twenty-one years.  Prior to joining the faculty at Fayetteville State University, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and at South Carolina State University.

Dr. Barlow is co-author of Police in a Multicultural Society: An American Story (Waveland, 2000) and has published articles on the history and political economy of crime control policy, crime and justice in the news media, and race and class issues in criminal justice.  She is currently researching the impact of incarceration in hard hit neighborhoods in the Fayetteville area.

Dr. Barlow’s practical experience in the field of criminal justice includes having worked as a correctional officer in a federal prison, a volunteer and consultant in juvenile justice, a police training consultant, and a member of a coalition to develop community justice alternatives to incarceration.  She is committed to educating for social change and promoting social justice in criminal justice.